Heautonaparnumenos

But, that He might do this the better, and to provide lest His Postulata should not be granted, necessary it was, Mankind should be throughly convinced of these Particulars. That there was such a thing as our Self crept into the world: That it was utter enmity with God: I •••ly, that it was beyond our Ability to remove it. A Glass• […] might reflect these Particulars to our view, was wanting […] a more commodious one could not possibly be found, t•t old, almost obliterated, Law of Nature, retrieved. Hereupon the Divine Majesty (Himself) committed that Law to writing: which, though it were, to prevent the like obliteration for the future, done in Tables of stone yet, could not have effected it, had not Moses beside recorded it in his Pentateuch; a far more lasting Monument; ¹for, when Heaven and Earth shall pass away, that Record shall not, but continue to a tittle, as our Saviour tells us. Now by this Glass was soon discovered, what a Mast ⟨p. 7⟩of Self-love we were buried in: How irreconcilable enmity God conceived thereat: Lastly, our own utter Imbecility, to subdue it. This was plain. No longer then might we flatter our selves with a conceit of our still continuing Innocency. ²Nor could we still pretend in our excuse any Ignorance of our misery, either from our Guilt, or our Imbecility. But, of necessity we were forced to pray in aide of some Saviour beside, yea above, our selves, to deliver us out of it.

But, that He might doe this the better, and to provide lest His Postulata should not be granted, necessary it was, Mankinde should be throughly convinc't of these Particulars. That there was such a thing as our Selfe crept into the world: That it was utter enmity with God: I •••ly, that it was beyond our Hability to remove it. A Glass• 〈…〉 might reflect these Particulars to our view, was wantin• 〈…〉 a more commodious one could not possibly be found, tt old, almost obliterated, Law of Nature, retriv'd. Hereupon the Divine Majesty (Himselfe) committed that Law to writing: which, though it were, to prevent the like obliteration for the future, done in Tables of stone yet, could not have effected it, had not Moses beside recorded it in his Pentateuch; a farre more lasting Monument;